Gunslinger is probably the first feminist western. It features a female lead that is just as tough and quick on the draw as just about anyone in westerns at the time. Beverly Garland gives one of her best performances as the wife of a small town marshal (William Schallert). He gets shot in the back in the opening scene and instead of grieving; ( Read more... )

A woman hiking in the wilderness falls into an underground cavern and disturbs a prehistoric egg. It hatches and a plesiosaur emerges. Pretty soon, it starts hanging out at a lake and eating tourists. Before long, a pterodactyl joins in and the two eventually start a fight over who gets to eat the tourists ( Read more... )

Hangar 18 is a sci-fi movie in the vein of Capricorn One. As with that film, it’s more of a conspiracy thriller than a legit space flick. At least this one has actual space flight and aliens ( Read more... )

I can’t say I’m a big Shakespeare fan, but I do have an appreciation for the Bard, being a former English major and all. Having said that, I’m not sure I would have sat through this horribly dubbed adaptation made for German television if it hadn’t been on Mystery Science Theater 3000. It’s an often dreary and slow moving version of the oft- ( Read more... )

Richard (Jaws from The Spy Who Loved Me) Kiel is an alien who comes to Earth to teach a scientist how to make exact robot doubles of people. When a noted scientist winds up dead, Hugh (Leave it to Beaver) Beaumont sends his best agent, George (Robot Monster) Nader to find the killer. He teams up with the scientist’s blind daughter, Dolores (The ( Read more... )

John Carradine stars as a doctor who brings a bunch of people with psychological problems to his creepy house to “cure” them. What he’s really doing is taking out their pituitary glands and using them to keep his human guinea pig from aging. A drifter (Myron Healey) who is wanted for murder stumbles upon the house and Carradine blackmails him ( Read more... )

Glenn Corbett stars as an astronaut who wakes up in a mysterious hospital after his shuttle crashes. Cameron Mitchell is the shady government agent who wants to know all about the astronaut and orders his mind probed while he sleeps. Corbett eventually has enough of the constant experimentation and he escapes from the hospital. It doesn’t take ( Read more... )

Fifteen years from now, there’s a big virus that kills off most of the adults, which means you’ve got a lot of twenty-somethings riding around the city on motorcycles and engaging in Warriors-style gang warfare. John Stockwell wants to horn in on that action, so he rides to the city and tries to ingratiate himself with “The Clippers”. Darrell ( ( Read more... )

The Incredible Melting Man is kind of hard to pin down, and I don’t mean just because of his inherently slippery exterior. The movie flirts with working here and there (mostly whenever the slimy, globular main character is front and center), but the rest of the time it’s pretty much a bore. Still, the film is JUST bad enough to be sporadically ( Read more... )

Deathstalker (John Allen Nelson) is sorta minding his own business when he gets mixed up in a plot that involves wizards, twin princesses, and magic stones. After one of the hottie princesses is murdered, Deathstalker goes to get revenge on the evil Troxartas (Thom Christopher from Buck Rogers). This Troxartas guy needs one more stone to revive ( Read more... )